I hate it when people do this. I don't really mind people breaking language for the purpose of amusement, but this doesn't fall into that category - it's somew

I hate it when people do this. I don't really mind people breaking language for the purpose of amusement, but this doesn't fall into that category - it's somewhere closer to breaking language for the sake of breaking language, and I don't like that. I like it when words are useful. Things like this and "browser-as-OS" and so on make words much less useful. I will concede that they seem to be using it as a metaphor more than a literal assertion, but it's still irksome.